Manufacture of wire hoops.



. Patented May 21, I90! I. WAGNER. MANUFACTURE OF WIRE HOOPS.

(No Model.)

(Application filed Mar. 12, 1900.)

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attd'cnuf rrnb STATES arnr rric IRA WAGNER, OF NEWCASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

MANUFACTURE OF WIRE HOOPS.

SPEGIFICATICN forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,749, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed March 12,1900. Serial No. 8,283. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA WAGNER, of Newcastle, in the county of Lawrence and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Processes for Man ufacture of Toy or Rolling Hoops; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of said description.

My invention relates to improvements in processes for manufacture of toy or rolling hoops. It has for its object, primarily, to avoid welding or forging the ends of the hoop material together and in promoting facility and convenience in assembling the parts together.

It consists in a separate core or hoop proper and a closure circumferentially slitted and transversely severed, adapted to closely clasp or clamp said core, with its point of severance breaking joints, as it were, with that of said core, as will be more fully disclosed herein after and pointed out by the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation thereof, all the parts being assembled. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the core or hoop proper alone. Fig. 3 is a like view of the closure or covering detached, and Fig. at is a crosssection of Fig. 1.

In carrying out my invention I first provide a core 1, constituting the hoop proper, which is made of some light malleable metalas, for instance, heavy wirewith its ends unconnected, although in this class of articles as heretofore made said ends being required to be welded or forged together. I next produce from sheet metal, as tin and the like, a closure or covering 2, suitably shaped to conform to the contour or outline of said core, with the opposite or lateral edges of the metal preferably initially standing sufficiently far apart to permit the lateral insertion of said core or hoop. The closure or cover 2 is now fitted upon the core or, hoop, the

latter being inserted thereinto, as above indicated, and the lateral edges of the metal brought together by suitably manipulating the same in the usual manner, effecting the clamping or clasping of said closure or covering firmly upon said core or hoop to prevent any possible slipping or sliding of said core within said closure or cover. In assembling or securing said parts together the meeting ends of the cover or closure are caused to break joints, as it were, with the joint between the ends of the core or hoop, and thus provide for concealing the joint of the core or hoop and avoid having to weld or forge said core or hoop at this point, as heretofore practiced in the manufacture of this class of hoops. It is also called to attention that with the ends of the closure slightly separated, as shown at Fig. 3, the eye of the rolling stick of the character used in connection with this class of rolling hoops can be more readily slipped upon said hoop and removed therefrom than by the construction heretofore employed.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In the manufacture of toy or rolling hoops, the described process which consists of providing a core or hoop, proper, having unconnected ends, and inclosing said core within a closure or covering of sheet metal, with its ends breaking joint with the joint formed between said ends of the core or hoop, proper, and with its lateral opposite edges initially standing apart for the insertion of said core into said closure or cover, and finally clamping or clasping said closure upon said core, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of 

